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E. D. STEELE.

BLANK FOR BUTTON FASTENERS. No. 303,678. Patented Aug. .19, 1884.

ihirrnn STATES PATENT @FFTQE.

EDVARD D. STEELE, OF \VATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASS IGNOR TO THE HEATQN BUTTON FASTENER COMPANY, OF PROVIDENCE, 1%. l.

BLANK FOR BUTTON-FASTENERS.

aEEPECIFIC'ATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,678, dated AugustlQ, 1884.

Application filed April 10, 1884. (No modcl.l

To 60% whom it may concern. A are cut from sheets of suitable metal, and Be it known that I, EDWARD D. STEELE, are each composed of two sharp pointed a citizen of the United States, residing at W'aprongs, a, arranged parallel to each other and terbury, in the county of New Haven and projecting from a central table, 7), in one di- 5 State of Connecticut, have invented certain rection and a narrow neck portion, 0, tcrminew and useful Improvements in Blanks for nating in a cresccntshaped head, at, project- ButtonFastencrs; and I do dcclarethe foling in an opposite direction, as fully shown lowing to be a full, clear, and exact .descrip in Fig. 1. tion of the invention, such as will enable oth- In forming the complete fasteners from the 10 ers skilled in the art to which it appertains to blanks A the two prongs a are first bent make and use the same, reference being had to down at right angles to the central... table, the accompanying drawings, andto theletters b. The neck portion 0 is then bent up into andfigures of reference markedthereon,which the form of a loop, and the crescent-shaped form a part of this specification. head d bent down in the same plane with the l 5 My present invention relates to improvecentral table, I), as fully shown in the draw ments in the manufacture of that class of butings. o ton-fasteners which are constructed so as to The complete fasteneris adapted to beat provide two or more fasteningprongs at one tached to a fabric or material by the usual end and a loop or neck having,'preferably, a setting instrument employed for such pur- 2o crescentshaped head at the opposite end, poses, the button in such case being attached whereby a button may be readily secured to to the fastener prior to its insertion in the said loop or neck either before or after the jaw of the setting-instrument, although the fastener is attached to the fabric or matefastener may first be attached to the fabric rial, as fully set forth in Letters Patent No. or material and the button afterward se- 25 292,960, which were granted to me under cured to the fastener, if deemed preferable.

date of February 5, 1884, and to which ref- The button is adjusted in place upon the erence may be had for a more thorough un fastener by inserting the shank of the button derstanding of my present improvements, over one end of the crescent-shaped head (I, which consist, essentially, of a blank of novel and then turning said shank around until it 0 and peculiar configuration having two sharpslips over the said head into the loop 0, as

pointed prongs at one end and a narrow neck shown in the drawings. The prongs of the portion terminating in a crescent-shaped head fastener, when attached to a fabric, are turned at the opposite end, the object being to proor deflected back into the under surface of vide a fastener which will hold the button the same in such manner as to clamp the 5 firmly down upon the surface of the fabric, to said fabric between the prongs and the table which it. may be attached, and at the same I), as fully shown in Fi 4, thereby causing time produce a more substantial and cheaper the table I) and the head (I to lie flat upon the fastener than those hitherto made for the same surface of the said fabric when in use. purpose. A The button may be readily removed from 0- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 the fastener and the fabric or material, when represents a plan view of the blank from desired, by simply bending or pinching up which the complete fastener is formed; Fig. the material until sufficient room is provid- 2, a perspective view of the complete fasted between the crescent-shaped head and the ener; Fig. 3, a similar view showing its atmaterial to admit of the easy passage of the 5 tachmcnt to a button and fabric,and Fig. 4 a shank of the button without the removal of side view thereof. the fastener or connection.

Similarletters of referenceindicate]ikc parts Having thus described my invention, what in the several figures. I claim as new and useful is- In carrying out my invention, the blanks The blank A, formed as described, with the V prongs a, arranged parallel to each other, and In testimony whereof I afi'ix my signature in projecting in one direction from a central presence of two Witnesses.

table, I), and a narrow neck, a, terminating 4 1 with a crescent-shaped head, (I, the several EDWARD blELLE' 5 parts being adapted to be bent to form a but- WVitnesses:

ton-fastener, substantially as and for the pur- EDWARD T. ROOT,

pose specified. L. I. MUNSON. 

